ANTI MATTER is another cerebral science fiction flick made on an indie budget. It's set at Oxford University, where a female student accidentally creates a worm hole with the aid of some friends. Sadly, at this point the film descends into a slow-slow-slow character drama, only really coming together again at the very end. It does look quite nice for an indie production, but there's too little incident here to make this interesting.

Plot spoiler for Trekkies.

A group of college kids playing with an algorithm controlling an electronic pulse create a device that opens a wormhole. In a rush for funding, the decide one of them should go through the machine. Ana (Yaiza Figueroa) is selected. However soon things go weird for Ana as her memory keeps failing her.

This is a low budget science fiction film which geeks will hail like "Primer." The big difference between the two films is that this one managed to have a woman in it. The acting was okay, and I pretty much nailed the mystery being a Trekkie, having watched "The Enemy Within." The film has two main issues. One is that any wormhole shuts down as soon as something is placed inside. Having it stay open too long is not an issue. There are other wormhole issues, but I will spare you. The second problem is the title. Technically there is no "anti matter" in the film. A positron is antimatter. A photon is not.

Guide: F-word. brief sex and nudity (Yaiza Figueroa)

There is a philosophical component to the plot of the movie. I think that ruined it. Other than that, it started cool, the pace was good, the story was interesting, I was hooked. Then, at about half, the entire thing turned into the old "what is going on? Am I insane or is it real?" cliché which I personally abhor. And then the ending explained some things, but didn't really make me understand why I spent a quarter of a movie watching scenes that didn't make sense. And then it ended with a weak "don't play god" thing.

I really wanted it to be more than a back of a napkin plot twist at the end, but it wasn't. So much setup for something that was basically a butt of a joke. Physics doesn't turn into metaphysics just because you equate apples with oranges.

Bottom line: it started great and it fizzled in the end. The structure of the movie was good and the ending was artistic enough to not really matter in the overall story.